A codename for Trisquel 9 will be needed soon. It's not needed very urgently, but it would be good to have a name by next week.

Trisquel 9 will be based on the as-yet-unreleased Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver."

Rules for names:
* Trisquel versions are named after Celtic gods.
* It should be a "searchable" name (that is, a name that doesn't have many results on search engines, so we can "take it over." For example: Searching for Flidas has Trisquel in the top results.

Or ... what about a Roman god? Janus, the god of gates, doors, and beginnings. The month of January was named after Janus, who had two faces​—one looking forward and the other looking backward, just like Trisquel (the distro) looking up for you. Just a thought friends!

awesome skull and flag! are you from the Island or raised in the USA,?

About abandinus

Abandinus was a name used to refer to a Celtic god or male spirit worshipped in Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire during the Romano-Celtic period.

Abandinus - "Defender of the Waters"

Known as ‘Defender of the Waters,’ not much is known of the Celtic god Abandinus, save for an inscription on a bronze votive found in Cambridgeshire, England which read “To the god Abandinus, Vatiaucus gave this from his own money.”

Camulus (Camulos, Camalos) is a god of war and sky.
Other terms that might be found are a German band (spelled Camulos) and a museum called Rancho Camulos. Those don't rank very high in the searches I made.

"Etiona is a Celtic goddess worshipped in Gaul; she is known only from inscriptions in Etrechy, France, where she was accompanied by her fellow deities Carantana, Isosa, Gnatus, and Hidua ... The origin of Etiona’s name is unclear. I have seen it suggested that it derives from the Proto-Celtic *ett(n)jo or “kernel” and that this indicates that she is a goddess of wisdom (i.e. “kernel of knowledge”) but I wonder if it could equally well indicate a connection to agriculture or food stores."https://hearthfirehandworks.com/about-the-gods/gaulish-and-brythonic-celtic-gods/etiona/

A name derived from an ancient word for kernel seems like a good GNU-Linux name, although it could also be a good name for a libre fork of the Linux kernel.

I don't suppose it "needs" to be anything right? But to follow with tradition. You may as well ask why does Debian need to be named after Toy Story characters or why Ubuntu needs to be an adjective+animal combination. Or why any particular distro needs to be named in any particular way. Because someone, somewhere, made that decision. And this naming system is what Trisquel is using. Any naming system will be arbitrary so let's enjoy ours and get back to our regularly scheduled progrmaming and try to come up with names for Trisquel 9.

I think just listing names won't do so much good here, we will just get a copy of the wikipedia list in the end...
maybe this time our beloved voting system can come in handy for once and be used for ... well, for voting.

In case my sarcasm doesn't show through clearly enough, please do *not* turn Trisquel into an SJW "muh womens representation" distro. "Female" is not a part of Trisquel's naming scheme; Trisquel releases are named after Celtic gods, either male *or* female. In fact, take a look at the past names: five of them are female, five of them are male, and one of them is unisex. Maybe actually look into what the distro is doing before shouting "patriarchy" and trying to inject your identity politics where they don't belong.

I think software should (preferably, not absolutely) be female. Like ships. Or trees in some languages. Or calamities (like hurricanes). Software moves, sails and surfs, it grows and sometimes it crashes.

I whole-heartedly agree.
There is a set naming scheme for Trisquel releases, we should go with that as it stands and there is not reason to introduce any arbitrary rules.

It doesn't matter if the release code names are of male *or* female god*esses or one that's unisex, for lack of a better word, because that's not the *point*.
The argument is akin to discussing whether a release milestone should be named after a small or large clothing size, or it being a one-size-fits-all release name.

I was "shooting down" a female supremacist trying to inject female supremacy where it doesn't belong.

This thread is not about changing Trisquel's naming system. Trisquel already *has* a naming system which includes both male *and* female names, and incidentally, it has exactly equal representation of male and female names as of Trisquel 8.

Furthermore, it is you and Fil who are categorically shooting down every possible male name that could be on the table, including the "Abandinus" suggestion above that multiple people (myself included) like. So your "please do not shoot down suggestions" response is hypocritical.

First of all, I didn't mean to hurt anybody's feelings with my simple and humble suggestion. I'm sorry if I did hurt yours.

>I was "shooting down" a female supremacist trying to inject female supremacy where it doesn't belong.

For the sake of clarity:
I'm a "white heterosexual middle-class man" (yuck!). I'm definitely no female supremacist. And I don't like the idea of anybody's "supremacy" over anybody else. Be it of any kind.

>Furthermore, it is you and Fil who are categorically shooting down every possible male name

I think you're mistaking me for somebody else. I wrote nothing about other people's suggestions nor did I "shoot down" any name.
I just dropped down my own two cents, simply put. I have no intention to turn this thread into any discussion of any kind, other that its original purpose.